THE VALERIAN FAMILY 
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1 seed. Stems 1 foot high, slender and wiry, repeatedly branched ; with the lower leaves narrow, 
blunt, and entire, and the upper leaves narrow and pointed, generally toothed at the base. 
Rare. Cultivated fields and waste lands. June — August. Annual. 
Narrow-fruited or Toothed Corn-salad. (Valerianella dentata, Poll.)— A very 
similar species to the last, but with a different fruit, roundish, and crowned with the calyx-border, 
the seed occupying the whole of the interior, the 2 empty cells being reduced to 2 ribs. 
Not uncommon. Cornfields and banks. June — August. Annual. 
* Woolly-fruited Corn-salad. (Valerianella eriocarpa, Desv.)— Not a native. A very 
similar species to the last, the Toothed Corn-salad (Valerianella dentata), but differing in the 
seed being hairy and the calyx-border crowning it being large and cup-shaped. 
Very rare. Introduced into cultivated ground and waysides. June. Annual. 
